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United States Patent | 5,275,503 |
Lewis ,   et al. | January 4, 1994 |
The invention relates to paving blocks or tiles or to wall tiles, and has for its objective to provide a block or tile shape giving substantial freedom to a designer in providing any one of a considerable number of available patterns employing numbers of blocks or tiles of the same size. This objective is met by a construction comprising a generally rectangular body (2) having two generally parallel sides (3) and two ends each formed by two curved surfaces (3, 5) one end being formed by two equally and oppositely curved convex surfaces (4) that meet on the general center plane of the block or tile, and the other end being formed by two equally and oppositely curved concave surfaces (4) that meet on the general center plane of the block or tile (1), all the curved surfaces being of the same curvature.
Inventors: | Lewis; Richard (9 Church Street, Tideswell, Derbyshire SK17 8PE, GB); Richards; Judith (The Bulls Head, Tideswell, Derbyshire SK17 8NU, GB) |
Appl. No.: | 842145 |
Filed: | May 14, 1992 |
PCT Filed: | October 9, 1990 |
PCT NO: | PCT/GB90/01550 |
371 Date: | May 14, 1992 |
102(e) Date: | May 14, 1992 |
PCT PUB.NO.: | WO91/05914 |
PCT PUB. Date: | May 2, 1991 |
Oct 10, 1989[GB] | 8922804 |
Current U.S. Class: | 404/42 |
Intern'l Class: | E01C 005/00 |
Field of Search: | 404/41,42 |
708470 | Sep., 1902 | Flood | 404/42. |
4711599 | Dec., 1987 | Glickman | 404/42. |
Foreign Patent Documents | |||
2407621 | Aug., 1975 | DE | 404/42. |
2012332 | Jul., 1979 | GB | 404/42. |